Pressures on a surface-mounted rectangular prism under varying incident turbulence

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1095-1115

  Tieleman, Henry W ^a   Ge, Zhongfu ^a   Hajj, Muhammad R ^a   Reinhold, Timothy A ^b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b South   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional sampling; Cumulative probability function; Peak duration; Peak load coefficients; Peak pressure coefficients; Pressure measurements

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRISMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNELS;

LOAD COEFFICIENTS;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 0141484704     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(03)00045-X     Document Type: Article

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